The amount provided by the City of Cieza for this program in the 2015 budget year is the amount of 12,000 euros.
The deadline for submitting applications is Tuesday 20 October.
Youth Councillor, Maria Ramos, announced at a press conference a new call for scholarship support for university transport directed to students residing in the municipality of Cieza who go to college or vocational training in public schools in the Region of Murcia Albacete and that usually is forced to use public transport to get around, which means high costs for the family budget.
As noted by Ramos, the budget available this year amounts to 12,000 euros, "an amount that in principle we know that is not excessive. We are aware that we must improve the game regarding this matter and for next year, we will. These provide scholarships represent a grain of sand to the difficult economic situation in some ciezanas families. "
The main novelty of the call this year is the incorporation of vocational training students as recipients of such aid.
"For the first time will include students of training cycles that are not implanted in Cieza, because we understand that their displacement is causing an expense in the family budget," he said.
He said the municipal official who, when preparing the foundation, "has taken into account the political groups. They are the result of dialogue and consensus, as the groups were invited so that they could make contributions to them and that day was formalized what had been presented as a draft to other forces, including changing and what was agreed in the meeting. "
As for the procedure for awarding grants, the Councillor for Youth stressed that these scholarships will be awarded based on family economic needs of applicants.
The per capita income of the Members of the household does not exceed 4,000 euros per year.
The documentation to be submitted consists instance, transport scholarship model, copy of the bank receipt of registration and having made the entry of the amount of it or receipt of scholarship application, bank account number, signed and stamped by the bank in which student must bear the applicant as holder thereof and interested authorization model for the Youth Council can collect tax data of the Inland Revenue concerning the level of income.
The deadline for submission of documents is fifteen natural days from the day following the announcement of the call in the media and insert in the bulletin board of the foundation.
They will also be available to those interested in the municipal website, through the Citizen Folder section and the Youth Council at Calle del Barco.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza